Wednesday, 23 February 2005
Snowboarding Take Four
« More on Dynamic UIs with blojsom plugins | Main | AutoLink and Syndicated Content »I headed up to West Mountain after work for some night snowboarding. A colleague who also teaches snowboarding at West Mt. gave me some instructions on control, stance, and turning. It helped immensely!
I now feel more in control of the board. I'm more stable now that I've focused on where my center of gravity is and how to use it. I turn better now that I'm not so stiff and rigid and I'm using my body and board correctly to turn and maneuver. At the end of the 3 hours I was there I was definitely able to get down the face trail at a good clip. I wasn't as apprehensive about the steeper portions and made a conscious effort to make some turns on those parts. I noticed that the bottom of the board was getting some wear on my toe side.
Honestly it feels great. Granted this is only my 4th time snowboarding, but it's such a blast. It doesn't hurt that I can get from the house to the lift in roughly 30 minutes.
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